Central Africa needs to enhance sub-regional cooperation to ensure satisfactory appropriation of natural capital accounting as a tool for mobilizing financing for the green economy
Stories & Blogs ECA (Story )"No Central African country, despite the Congo Basin’s enormous natural resource endowments, has an economic and environmental accounting system…", emphasized Dr. Nebiyeleul Gessese,
ECOSOC, UNGA Presidents Look to Summit of the Future to Accelerate SDGs
Stories & Blogs IISD (News )The UNGA President highlighted the Summit of the Future as an opportunity to scale up commitments and reinvigorate multilateralism to address today’s challenges.
“Peace is the Missing Piece”: UN Secretary-General on Priorities for 2024
Stories & Blogs IISD (News )Guterres identified the Summit of the Future as an opportunity to shape more effective and inclusive multilateralism in our increasingly multipolar world.
ECOSOC Discusses Durable Solutions, Partnerships to Reinforce 2030 Agenda
Stories & Blogs IISD (News )The ECOSOC President welcomed the Partnership Forum’s multi-stakeholder and participatory discussions that, she said, can “shine the spotlight on innovative solutions for addressing many of today’s most pressing challenges”.
De-risking investments in Africa to unlock the continent’s full potential of public private partnerships
Stories & Blogs ECA (Story )“Up to 80 per cent of the initiated infrastructure projects across Africa fail at the feasibility and planning stages,” noted Claver Gatete, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)